India • Workforce and Employment; Entrepreneurship
- Sector: Workforce and Employment; Entrepreneurship
- Headquarters Country: India
- Operating Regions: India,south Asia, Africa
- Founders: Neelam Chhiber
- Problem Identified: Industree's interventions address the neglected rights of producers at the sub-contractor level by using a hub-and-spoke model where each producer, even in the smallest enterprise, is a willing and documented participant in a compliant value chain.
- Solution Offered: Supply chain transparency is vital to solving issues of substandard working conditions. In order to develop this, Industree has launched two key initiatives to create technology that facilitates conscious and responsible production and consumption. Industree, with pro-bono support from Mindtree, is developing a digital societal platform accessible to all producer enterprises that will build traceable systems to track on-boarded producers' age, work hours, minimum wages and payments, and facilitate access to resources like raw material, capital and design, thereby ensuring implementation of fair practices across the value chain. As part of the platform, Industree, together with Sonata Software, is creating a producer-owned e-commerce portal exclusively for traceable handmade products that connects producers directly to customers and retail markets.
- Social Impact: Industree works as an incubator and accelerator by facilitating the aggregation of producers into self-owned enterprises, implementing capacity building, assisting in developing products that appeal to modern markets, and enabling their access to vital working capital.
- Website: https://motherearth.co.in/
- Score: 6 Product processing with minimal impact documentation
